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Silvertears

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I was given this milk snake. The owner was given it by someone and they both didn't want it. They thought it was a corn snake. It looks more like a milk snake but I can't figure out which type. Sorry about blurry pictures. He didn't exactly want to stay still.

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It is a corn. The slab sides and discernible neck are tipoffs. Milks and kings are more cylindrical and neckless. I don't know which morph it is; it looks hypomelanistic or amelanistic at least.
 
100% corn snake.
 
The hypomelanistic looks a lot like mine. Everyone that had been to my house has told me it was a milk snake. So that is what I thought it was. I don't know a great deal on milk or corn snakes. Only reason I took this one is because he wasn't being treated right and the person was desperate to get rid of him. Got him in a 55 for free.
 
lol im not a snake guy at all but im 100 % sure its a Corn snake.
 
Silvertears;3840253; said:
I was given this milk snake. The owner was given it by someone and they both didn't want it. They thought it was a corn snake. It looks more like a milk snake but I can't figure out which type. Sorry about blurry pictures. He didn't exactly want to stay still.
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My knee jerk reaction is hypomelanistic cornsnake.

But looking at the reduced pattern on the head and neck and the slightly elongated head I can't rule out that this is a Rosy Ratsnake or Key's Ratsnake, which nowadays is just another locality of the cornsnake, albeit a relatively uncommon one. Twenty years ago they were assigned to their own subspecies, Elaphe guttata rosacea and you can still find info using that search phrase in google.

To be clear, I can't say for sure this is a Rosy Ratsnake and in fact I doubt it is. But you might do a bit more research and see what you think.

Can you take a picture of the belly and post it?

I used to keep a Rosy Ratsnake many years ago and finally sold it to a keeper who had a mate for it. Never have kept them again.
 
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